I am a Burmese exile taking a near-permanent refuge in New York and Sydney. Here are my essays about Burma and anything else I feel like writing about. And posting the articles I like from selected sites. Bridging Burma to the world this Blog is more of a Politically-Oriented Literary Blog than a Plain News Blog or a Sophisticated Thoughts Blog.

Thursday, January 2, 2014

Burma Women Leaders’ Public Talks In Meikhtilar

Three prominent women rights activists
in Burma have been delivering public lectures all over Burma and calling for
the Ah-myo-zount (National Race Protection) Act to be submitted to the
Parliament and promulgated.

NDF (National Democratic Force) party
MP Khin Wine Kyi, Wun-thar-nuu Democratic Party General Secretary Nan Shwe
Kyar, and National Literary Prize winning author Yin Yin Nuu had each delivered
a public lecture on women rights and Ah-myo-zount Act on December-31 at
Meikhtilar City in Middle Burma.

The 4 pm ceremony was attended by
Thet-taw-shay Sayardawgyi Bart-dan-tah Thar-meet-ka the Chairman of Meikhtilar
Township Ah-myo-zount Association, U War-ya-ma the Secretary of Meikhtilar Township
Thangah-naryaka, nationalist monk Sayardaw U Wirathu, 969 Youths from Mandalay
City, NDF party members from Mandalay, and more than a thousand local Buddhists
from Meikhtilar.

Only about 150 of more than 1,000
strong audience were men and the Meikhtilar Public Talks was much bigger than
in the previous December-26 talk in Mandalay a much bigger city than
Meikhtilar. And even many old ladies were seen actively cheering at the Meikhtilar
talks.

Shin Wirathu himself wrote on his blog post that
previously they had to remind Burmese-Buddhists to have Kyaukbadaung bloods,
but now Meikhtilar has been showing so much nationalist blood by their recent actions
against the Bengali-Muslims he now has to call out to people to have Meikhtilar
bloods in their veins.

(Blogger’s
notes: Shin Wirathu must be referring indirectly to the bloody Muslim riots
in Kyaukbadaung before and also recent Meikhtilar Muslim riots when hundreds of
Bengali-Muslims were killed and tens of thousands were herded into make-shift
refugee camps inside town’s soccer stadiums. Meikhtilar Buddhists also rudely
protested and tried to block UN Human Rights Rapporteur and hated Tomas Qintana’s
vehicle convoy visiting the Muslim refugee camps in their town last year.)